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Lincoln and the triumph of the nation : constitutional conflict in the American Civil War
"The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Co...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Littlefield history of the Civil War era
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Table of Contents:
- Secession and anarchy: Lincoln's view of the constitution and the nation
- Habeas corpus, the nation, and the presidency
- The Emancipation Proclamation: the triumph of nationalism over racism and the constitution
- Soldiers in the courtroom
- The nation in the courts: the least dangerous branch fights the civil war
- Secession: deratifying the constitution
- The police state of Richmond
- State rights in the confederacy.